People from Gotha (town)

Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Bechstein (1 June 1826 – 6 March 1900) was the maker of C. Bechstein pianos and the founder of C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik.

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (16 October 1932 – 1 April 1991) was a German manager and politician, as member of the Social Democratic Party. He was named president of the Treuhandanstalt, the agency responsible for the reprivatization/privatization of all state-owned property in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), in September 1990, and served until his assassination by a Far Left terrorist organization, the Red Army Faction, in April 1991. He had also served as CEO of the steel manufacturer Hoesch AG since 1980.